Well, I trust both Google and Dropbox enough to store my encrypted backups. Wouldn't upload anything important without encryption though.

I run OpenWRT Backfire on my TP-link WR1043. It even comes with an USB port.
It's MIPS based, comes with 32 MB ram and a gigabit switch etc.

Can only recommend.

Well, something has to explain what we observe in the lab.
So far, quantum physics is the only successful theory.

In wind power, yes, you use rare earth materials. But at end of life, these can be recycled. It's not like we throw
the rare earth materials into space when we're done with them.

Solar power uses ground water in deserts. Does this even run out? I mean, ground water is there because it rains or comes in from the sea.
Evaporating water from solar panels still make it into rain and so the cycle should continue.

What's the fuss?

or rather how it does so

I wonder if this chip can do plasticity and learning just as a real brain.

One thing is to hardwire a neural network, another is to mimic the brain.
The brain constantly rewires itself in different ways to learn.

I'm 23 too, and I use Fluxbox for the exact same reasons.

When I started using Linux, I used WindowMaker as my window manager. It was a bit bloated, but it was fast and efficient.
I soon switched to Fluxbox, since it is much nicer and easier to customize and it does not get in your way.

With Fluxbox, there is nothing (no icons, and no annoying screen-estate eaters or blinking distractions) but a single menu always /just one mouse click away/
with your most used applications in it. You don't even have to move your mouse and hit (or miss) an icon first.
Desktop switching couldn't be faster, just press alt+fx or scroll with your mouse.
No annoying or time consuming animations to distract or delay you.

I love Fluxbox!

Since I bought this laptop about 4 years ago, I have never even come close to filling the 160 GB drive it came shipped with.
My previous laptop had 40 GB, which was plenty. The 70 GB I use now is mostly taken up by some raw virtual machine drive files
I haven't bothered to delete. It has never once occurred to me that I should buy a bigger hard drive.

In my research group we have just downloaded 2 TB of weather data for analysis. When I first heard of this,
I was surprised I would ever see this kind of storage usage.

With encryption you don't even have to think about it. You can just forget you ever owned the computer.

I just encrypt my hard drive. If a thief nicks my laptop, all he's going to get is a piece of (old) hardware and a disk full of seemingly
random numbers. While it's annoying, you don't need to put resources into tracking the bastard, just get on
with it and buy a new machine, which you would anyway.

Hardware is cheap. Data is your time, work and money, so protect it with encryption and keep backups.

That's a very mathematical way of looking at it. If you can't give it physical meaning or measure it, it isn't there and it's not physical.